Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is a matter of data control. On one level we are trying to provide for the proper right to health care and a wraparound for everyone at all levels. In terms of population health, the best way to manage each engagement with the health service is to record it. The health care systems in the US now provide red flag capacity, which means that they can look at a spread of blood tests and trigger a red flag within the health care system in order that someone can get an intervention before an acute event has occurred. We have none of that in the Irish context, but health care technology can do that now. We are balancing the potential to give greater health care rights to people against their rights to data control. It is just an interesting comparator of how we manage that.